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March 23, 2010

Video: Hadley Wickham gives a short course on graphics with R

Hadley Wickham (the creator of the popular ggplot2 graphics package for R) has posted video of a 2-hour short course on Visualisation in R at his blip.tv channel. The video is split into four thirty-minute segments:

The course is peppered with self-guided exercises, for which data, code and the supporting slides are all available. So if you want to be able to create beautiful, informative visualizations of data sets large and small, like this: